Resurrection Virus

[National Acrobat]

Perhaps the God of the Dead or Disease is infecting the raised people with this disease to show his displeasure at people "cheating" death, or perhaps the same god is doing this in order to mark those who have avoided his call. Just an idea, that is how I would envision it in my campaign. It certainly is a neat idea.

 

[Kilroy]

Re: ressurection virus

Thanks, I plan to use this idea in the game I run, in case anyone ever dies.

The cleric casting raise will have to journey to the afterlife to find the soul they're trying to bring back. Once there, they'll have two options. They can steal the soul back, which will result in it returning as an outsider, with a strong vulnerability to whatever killed it in the first place. It will slowly waste away, still afflicted with the need to travel to it's destination in the afterlife, and servants of death will someday hunt them. They can also barter with the servant of death who is guarding the soul on the way to the afterlife, who will give them Sagiro-like options, possibly requiring that they trade a soul, or that they vow to hunt down a specific powerful undead creature.

- Kilroy